The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1887-12-29
Terrible Snfferings Of Helpless Mex
leans In the Earthquake Region.
Ne,r York Erening Sun

Terrible Snfferings Of Helpless Mex
leans In the Earthquake Region.
.Neu York Erening Sun.
NoGALEs, A. T., December "a
Costerlitsky, who is in charge of the
National Frontier Police, at Bavispe,
was in town last night. He painted
q woful picture of the present condi.
ton of the earthquake sufferers. He
said that the Mexican Government
had quite recently sent them plenty
of provisions, but that they had an
insufficient quantity of wearing ap-
parel to keep themselves warm.
Their huts on Refuge Hill, which are
constructed of ocatilla poles and
grass, offer but slight protection from
the weather. Winter has set in with
sleet and snow, and the mercury has
registered lower so far than for many
= previous years.
The few houses which were con-
structed on the site Of the destroyed
city about month ago have been
shaken to their foundations. At
most the survivors have but enough
clothing to cover their nakedness.
Their sufe-ings are aggravated by
continued cold weather. Appre-
tensions are felt that pneumonia
will set in. If it does it will make
clean sweep.
Many ask, why don't the people
leave there %
Because all they have in the world
is in that vicinity. Family after fam
) lily were cultivating the suburbs Of
Bavispe before last May, and making
good hvings, and they stay there,
expecting that the quakings will
cease. 1t is true, the majority have
gone, but one nnst consider that all
they possessed wss household effects.
Some relief should be furnished
the inhsbitants of Refuge Hill at
once. It is not an easy task to de
pict their suferings. Imagine hill
covered with snow and dotted with
over one hundred hints, in which, on &C
count OF their indsmmability, no fires
are burned. In them are upward of
$50 men, women and children, buried
in hay, with old rags covering their
shivering bodies. The earth quivers,
and like so many rats from their
holes, pour out the cotton and calico
clothed, barefooted people expecting
to see the earth yawn and swallow
their hill. For hours they stand
without thoir buts, with the thermom-
eter at zero, fearful lest more shocks
will come.
= The past month has been one Of
increasing terror to all. Some days
the recurring rambling would not
be experienced, but just so sure as
day elapse without them the follow
ing day 8 succession of stocks, so
strong as to make standing i,npossi-
BILE, would follow. While there have
been no new riffs opened in tie
earth by them, heavy boulders have
been displaced from the mountains
and rolled laundering the Valleys.
To this horror add small band of
numbering Apsches, and you will
have some idea of the condition of
affairs at Bavispe. In the past three
weeks four men have been buried
who were murdered by them. At
present a detachment Of troops is
encamped near Refuge Hill. An es-
cort from this body is detailed daily
to protect the wood choppers who
furnish wood to the camp.
Three bucks, among whom is the |
celebrated Eliss, the half-breed, snd |
four squaEs have been seen. It is
positively known that they escaped |
at the time Geronimo wss captured, |
and have been depredating ever
since, although they have been |
chased into the United States several
times.
1t is the opinion Of many that the
earthquakes will continue at Bavispe
until volcano bursts forth. A gen
Slemsn who has made a study of
volcanoes and their origin in Central
Americs is pronounced in the opin-
ion that it will not be long before
one of the mountains in that vicinity
will be vomiting FIRE.
DR.. Good:eilow, of Tombstone,
who is in the employ of the United
States Government, leaves Magda-
lena for Bayispe tomorrow with Col.
kosteriitzky to continue his scienti-
&c researches. The Mexican scien.
,iic commission, which thoroughly
Investigated the earthquake country
N August, is preparing an exhaustive
.eport st Hermosilla Of their re-
searches. The report already covers
'everal hundred pages of legal cap,
md is not yet completed. 1t is ex-
oected that the copy will be placed
n the hands of the printer on March
!. Elaborate maps showing the
urface con6guration Of the country in l
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